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Vol 40—No. 1 2
DAHLONEGA, GA., FRIDAY APRIL 27. 1928.
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Next to Burns’ Barber Shop.
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A nood line of low cut Shoes
and a lot of nice Dress Goods. Al
so Ladies Hats. Just received at
. J. H. McKEES
Burlsboro, Ga.
PRESSING CLUB.
Wo have enstalled a Dry
'Jleuniog Machine and are
able to give you lirst class work.
For Dry Cleaning .Sac,
Scrubbed and Pressed 00c.
Hats blocked and cleaned
65 cents.
Mailorders given special atten
tion..
A BEE <fc JOHNSON.
Pacific Exports to South
, America Show Big Gain
Washington.—Exports from Pacific
const states to the west const repub
lics of South America Increased 236
per cent between 11)13 and 1920, the
Department of Commerce has re
vealed. The total value of exports
grew from less than $5,000,000 in 1013
to more than $15,000,000 in 1920.
r TVtuL yitli Ecuador, Polly if- Peru
and Chile has expanded strikingly
since the war, the department said,
30 per cent of fine combined export
frnefe of the four countries, valued at
$202,500,000 in 1020, representing
products of the United States.
The department pointed to an evi
dent demand for foodstuffs in the re
publics and said the Pacific coast
States are in a favorable position lo
export needed wheat, lard, fish and
fruit. Lumber is wanted in Peru, Bo
livia and Ecuador in large quanti
ties, f’liile lias more need for pe-
troteum.
Peru is regarded Its the most fa
vorable market, although lack of
regular transportation facilities has
retarded development of trade. In
crease In tin size of return cargoes,
it is believed, would warrant expan
sion of the service.
To Measure Light
• Schenectady, N. V.— Umberto Nohilt
of itie Norge proposes lo measure the
amount of light at the North pole
when he Hies thith-t from Leningrad
' next summer. A special photoelectric
cell device has hcen made here for
him.
Blind Girl Brightest
Johnstown, Pa.—Angel.ine, Humeri.
' seventeen, a blind student of Junior
high school, ranked highest in. studies
: last month among the 150 students.
1 Angelino lost her si lit seven years
; a go when a bomb sent through the
mails exploded in her home.
FORFST RRE GUARD
[•IAS LONELIEST
Slays Long Periods in Iso
lated Tower.
Washington.—The lighthouse keep
er, the prospector, the sheep herder
have lonely jobs, hut what is probably
the loneliest of all is that of tire for
est-lire observer 1 . Perched high on
some towering mountain top in the
cabin of lri$ steel lower, surrounded
for miles about by almost inaccessible
forest, lire tire observer goes for
weeks, ofien months, without seeing
another human being.
Not all contact with the world, how
ever, is lost, for h.v the very nature
of his work he must be in daily and
sometimes hourly telephone commu
nication with the ranger’s or forester’s
headquarters. Equipped with the in
dispensable telephone, his maps, range
finder, binoculars and meteorological
instruments, lire towermnn beeps con
stant watcli over tire thousands of
ncrcs of forest land spread out be
low him for the first telltale signs of
smoke.
Is Poorly Paid.
Tire job of lookout, lonely and usu
ally poorly paid as it is, nevertheless
demands a type somewhat above tlie
average in intelligence and fortitude
to fill it. lie must understand tele
phone line repair, must be able to
read maps and know enough about
triangulation to locate forest fires by
taking their bearings, must be nblc to
make temperature and humidity read
ings on a wet and dry bulb thermome
ter, and he must be able to cook iris
own meals.
Some states and tlie federal govern
ment have employed women observ
ers with good results. A woman look
out is quick to detect fires, accurate
in locating them and definite when re
porting them to headquarters. Where
tiro towers are situated near settle
ments or farms, women will often be
found “manning” tliom.
Tovvsra Have Long Range.
These towers, tire more modern of
which are of galvanized steel, vary
in height front 20 to 100 feet, though
there are some even hig-her. When
built on the highest peak of a moun
tain range a 00-foot tower will usu
ally permit a view of all the surround
ing forest. In clear weather the ob
server may be able to see 40 miles or
more, hut tire average visibility is be
tween 10 and 20 miles.
Bad Spelling Shows
How Jews Talked Latin
Austin, Texas.—Bad spelling on
tombstones in lire Jewish catacombs
of Home indicates how ihe Jews who
lived in Home in the early Christian
centuries pronounced Greek and Latin,
according to I')r. Harry J. Leon, of tire
University of Texas.
Scholars have wondered whether
the Jews who formed a set I lenient in
Rome clung to their Hebrew ways or
whether they did as the Romans did.
Doctor Leon explains. Six Unman cata
combs where t lie Jewish residents
buried their dead are now known, and
study of the Inscriptions on the slabs
and the gallery walls shows that the
writing is three-fourths Greek and one-
fourth Latin. Often words in the in
scriptions are confused with other
words of similar sound, so that they
are misspelled in characteristic ways.
Jewish ritualistic symbols on the tomb-
.Stones were Indeed written by Jewish
people using ruie.’gj! languages, Doc
tor Leon points out.
The Jewish population In Rome,
which grew to about 40,000, was no
more familiar with the Hebrew Ian
gunge tlinn the average Jew of today
The more cultured among them spoke
Latin as well as the popular Greek,
t lie recent investigations Indicate.
Their inscriptions afford valuable ma
terial In' tracing the history of tire
Greek and Latin languages in their
development front tire classical
tongues of antiquity to tire modern
Greek and the romance languages of
our day, Doctor I,con slates.
Six Pieces of Chicken
Held Ample for Bride
Clarksburg, W. Va.—If a liusbaftd
can furnish his wife six pieces of
fried chicken, six biscuits, n pair of
shoos, a dress, two suits of underwear
and six boxes of snuff in a week,
there is no ground for an action for
nonsupport.
Such was tiie ruling handed down
in Magistrate* R. Edward Kidd’s court
here in a case wherein John Six, fifl.v-
jtliree, was sued for nonsupport by Ids
bride, Naomi Six, sixteen years old
Six, employee of a dairy, said Ids girl-
wife wouldn’t even kiss him after lie
had bought her the tilings enumerated
ami lived with him only a week. Mag
i'Irate Kidd dismissed the case.
WIZARDS OF LIGHT
Release 3 Million Volts in
Gbmt Flash.
SCOTLAND’S MYSTERY
man wins RESPITE
Flghto to Clear Name After
19 Years in Prison.
St. Louis, Mo.—Artificial lightning
of 3,000,000 volts, the highest voltage
over obtained by man and about sev
enteen times greater than the highest
voltage transmission line in this coun
try, lias been produced in the high
voltage engineering laboratory of the
General Electric company at Pitts
field, Mass,; P. w. I’eck, ,Tr., in charge
of tlii3 work, announced here for the
first time In speaking before the re
gional convention of the Americnn In
stitute of Electrical Engineers.
This new generator, designed to
produce artificial lightning at millions
of horse power, is unique in its man
ner of operation. The electricity is
gradually stored In artificial clouds
just ns electricity is stored in real
thunder clouds, atul is then discharged
In a blinding flash of but a few mil
lionths of n second, producing all the
effects of real lightning, according to
Mr. reek.
A Blinding Flash.
“Lightning sparks, produced by
those voltages lasting but one ten-
millionth of a second, can be seen ns
a blinding flash. However, as light
travels about 100 feet in that time,
the phenomenon is nil over when a
person standing but 100 feet “away
sees it or when the light reaches him.
Yet it appears to he there,” Mr, reek
explained.
The Pittsfield laboratory has pio
neered in the development of power
transmission and high voltages since
it supervised the construction of the
first 15,000-volt lino In 1891.
Seven years ago, this laboratory
was first to announce 1,000,000 volts;
four years Inter 2,000,000 volts were
announced and now comes voltages of
almost twice as great, all as evidence
that engineers have more than kept
up with the economic demand for im
provements in power transmission.
"The object of tho study is to se
cure scientific information on the na
ture of electricity and to obtain fur
ther engineering information on the
protection of life and property against
lightning, to build transmission lines
transformers and other electrical ap
paratus to resist lightning voltages.”
Mr. Peek said, “Lightning Is one of
tiie greatest foes to electrical appar
atus mid much lias already been done
in this laboratory to produce light
ning-proof apparatus. The present
generator produces higher voltages
than ever produced by natural light
ning on transmission lines.”
Measured by Instrument.
Although these voltages frequently
have a duration of less than a mil
lionth of a second the!r rate of rise
and fall or wave shape has been ac
curately measured by an instrument
using a beam of electrons ns a pointer
and known as a cathode ray oscillo
graph. This device was developed by
tiie General Engineering laboratory of
tiie General Electric company at
Schenectady.
Waves of lightning travel along a
metal wire just as water waves travel
on the ocean. As water waves, when
they strike a wall, splash up to
double height, so lightning waves
splash up to double voltage when
they strike tiie end of a line. From
direct voltages of 3,000,000 voltages
of more than 5,000,000 of very short
duration were observed by reflection
from the open end of a line in tiie
experiments, Mr. Peek said.
Mr. Peek ami Ids associates have
been experimenting with these de
structive voltages from tiie new gen
erator for many months nnd in ids
talk here lie laid emphasis on
tiie fact that his success was in a
large measure due to tiie assistance
of his associates.
Cost of Helium Is
Cut to Few Cents
Washington.—Science has reduced
tiie cost of helium, (lie Inert gas which
has greatly multiplied tiie safety fac
tor In lighter-thnn-air craft such as
the Los Angeles, to about 25-iuilliouths
of Its prewar level.
Then it was merely a laboratory cu
riosity, known to possess lifting power
but costing $1,T0() to $2,000 a cubic
foot td produce. Naturally the cost
overbalanced its advantage over the
highly inflammable hydrogen gas for
inflation of aircraft cells.
But Director Scott Turner of the
bureau of mines, In his latest report
to Secretary Hoover, observed that
the cost of the 1920 output of Hie
Fort Worth helium plant, which is
under Ihe supervision of the bureau,
was at the rate of 3.11 cents a cubic
foot. It rose to 1.37 cents last year,
because <>f Hie approaching exliuus
lion of the Petrolla natural gas field
but steps are under way to develop
new son fees.
Glasgow.—Scotland's "Man In the
Iron Mask," set free after 30 years
behind tiie bars of Peterhead prison
under the name of Oscar Slater, Is
lighting before*, the Scottish Court of
Appeals to clear his name of the
stigma of nn infamous hammer mur-
ider.
If ho is finally adjudged innocent
through the reversal of the nineteen-
year-old verdict of guilty, it is likely
that parliament will he asked to reim
burse him for Ills long years of false
imprisonment.
Who he was before he became a
prison numeral none lias come for
ward to say. All Hint is known of
him to this day Is Hint lie is a Silesian
.Tew nnd has a sister living in Ger
many.
Many Call Him Innocent.
Behind the iron mask of Slater’s im
passive face is tin innocent man, de
clare many eminent men in England
beaded by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
creator of Sherlock Holmes. But ac
cording to tiie law Sinter is the mur
derer of Miss Marion Gilchrist,
wealthy and elderly Glasgow eccentric
who was killed by a blow on tiie head
with a hammer.
Slater’s own tight lips are respon
sible for much of ids mystery. Scot
land’s best detectives In 20 years have
not been able to learn who lie really
is, nnd Slater refuses to bring noto
riety to his family by admitting Ills
identity. Just as no historian can
say wlio was tiie Man in the Iron Mask
of tiie reign of Louis XIV, so there Is
no one in Britain who can say who
the man known as Oscar Slater was
before 3008, when his freedom was
snatched from him in New Y'ork.
When tiie appeal is heard Mrs. Ron
ald Gillan, wife of a Scottish miner
supposed to be living near Pittsburgh,
Pa., who as Miss Helen Lnmbie was
the principal stale witness in Hie orig
inal trial, may be asked to return to
England to testify.
Slater was implicated In the mur
der charge because lie had pawned a
diamond brooch which the Scottisli
police said belonged to Hie slain wom
an, nnd because he went from Glas
gow to Liverpool and thence to New
Y'ork, as if fleeing from tiie scene of
tiie crime.
After Sinter had been supposedly
connected with Hie murder, it devel
oped that the diamond brooch was
not Miss Gilchrist’s at all, but Sla
ter’s own property, pawned before the
murder.
Trapped by New York detectives on
nn ocean liner, Sinter was held until
Miss Helen Lnmbie, Miss Gilchrist’s
maid, together with a girl nnd a man
who lived in the fiat below Miss Gil
christ, went to New York nnd said
they thought lie was the murderer.
Expected Quick Release.
Slater returned to Scotland expect
ing quick release, and tiie greatest
trial in Scottisli police history of tiie
last two decades was on.
“We do not know who Hint man
sitting In tiie dock really Is,” Lord
Guthrie declared, pointing to Slater,
in summing up the evidence. "We do
not know where he was born, who ills
parents are, where lie was brought up.
,1'lie man remains a mystery as much
as when the trial began.”
Sinter was convicted by tiie Jury
and sentenced to death, but before
the dale of execution could be set
a public outcry arose. Nine jurors
had voted for guilty, five for not prov
en and one for not guilty. In Scot
land at that time a majority vote
hanged or freed a man. Because of
tiie outburst of public opinion Slater’s
sentence was commuted to life impris
onment.
Since then prominent men, as well
ns Slater himself, have stubbornly
maintained ids innocence. In recent
years Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lias
headed tills group, nnd lie is to a
large extent responsible for Slater’s
recent release. Sir Arthur main
tained that the Identification of Sla
ter was wholly unfair.
It Is a coincidence that Lord Morl-
son, who us T. B. Morison, K. C., was
junior counsel for tiie prosecution at
the trial in 1900 and moved for the
death sentence on Sinter, should lie
‘one of tiie appeals judges to hear
Slater’s last effort. Lord Clyde, jus
tice general, will preside.
Convict Wins Liberty
by Gift of His Blood
Asheville, N. C.—A quart of bis
blood, given in a vain effort to save
the life of a dying boy, lias won Hom
er Riley his freedom from tiie state
prison’s chain gang. Governor Mc
Lean, granting a petition signed by
many citizens of North Carolina, has
granted Riley a parole.
Alvin Cothran, fourteen, was stabbed
on Christmas eve while trying to do
fend Ids mother from a man who ban
broken Into llielr lutme. Riley offered
liis blood for transfusion. Despite Ills
generosity Alvin died. The case at
tracted wide attention nnd Riley has
been offered a number of Jobs. Ilf
was sentenced to two years on the
chain gang for abandoning Ills* wife
but has now promised to support her
Gets $25,000 for Toe
Pittsburgh, Pa.—Virginia White, six
teen, was awarded a $25,000 verdicl j
against the Pittsburgh Railways coin
pany by a Jury here for tiie loss or
Hie great toe on her right foot, be i
cause, among other reasons, it inter !
fered with her dancing.
CRABS DATE BACK
23,000,900 YEARS
Eclenilct Proves Theory in
Grr.nd Canyon.
Washington.—An indication that at
lon?t one family of North Carolina
sand crabs lias an extremely aristo
cratic lineage, dating back about 25,-
000,000 years, is contained in a re
port on new fossil discoveries In tiie
Grand canyon by Dr. Clin Wes W. Gil
more, noted paleontologist of Hie
Smithsonian institution.
Tracks of the ancient creature Hint
roamed around In tiie ooze which
formed the foundation of the moun
tain before it was cut by the Colorado
river were first found in 1003 liy tiie
late Dr. Charles I). Walcott in the
Coconino Ptnndstone on Grand View
trail. Another specimen was found 32
years later by Prof. Charles Schuch-
ert of Yale, nnd a third last year by
Doctor Gilmore.
Using this ns a type specimen for
his study, lie has concluded that the
trackway probably was made h.v some
crustacean in tiie Permian period of
geological time. The sandstone slab
shows two parallel lines of imprints
tn groups of four, arranged in a row
of three regularly spaced trucks with
the fourth offset inward.
Tiie similarity of lids arrangement
to Hie tracks of living sand crabs was
called to Doctor Gilmore’s attention
by Remington Kellogg of Hie United
States biological survey, who observed
these creatures recently on Hatteras
island, N. C.
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Cardui Helpful to South
Carolina Lady Whose
Health Gave Way.
Mrs. Lotha Cabaniss, of
Chesneo, S. C., “did too
much,” and her "health
gave way." She writes:
“I took boarders and, at
tlio snmo time, worked in
tlio mill. As a result, I
had to stay In bed from
overwork for eighteen
days. I had bad pains . . .
I got clear down and was
very much depressed.
“I had read of where
Cardul hud helped other
women suffering with trou
bles like my own, so I
made up my mind to take
Cardul, myself.
“I sent and got a bottle,
and It did me so much
good I took it on until I
got entirely well.”
Cardul should also prove
helpful in your case. Try
It Ask your druggist.
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Delhi, British India.—Word has
been received here that V. G. I’lymire,
American missionary; J. T. Mathew-
son, English missionary, and Dr. Wil
helm Filclmer, German scientist, who
have been conducting a magnetic sur
vey of Hie Himalayas, have arrived
at Leh, a mountain caravan center
north of the Himalayas.
This is the first definite word re
ceived from the party since September
30, when they were said to have
reached Nagchuka, ten days’ journey
north of Lnssa. Previously they had j
been reported slain by bandits on tiie
Tibetan border.
Leh is a center for caravan traffic
between northwestern India and Chi
nese Turkestan. The arrival of tlio
party there marks tiie start of the
second and final stage of their survey.
Members of tiie party say that they
have added much to knowledge of
terrestinl magnetism by establishing
through Kulun, In Chinese Turkestan,
a connection between the west Asi-
ntic-Europenn net nnd Chinese net
made by the magnetic survey of the
Carnegie institute, and likewise by
linking up Hie Chinese net with tiie
Indian net.
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F R ED JO NJE[S,
Dahlonega.
mer work, witli some modifications of
the apparatus used.
By bis original work, tiie weight ol
tiie earth was figured in tons to be
6,502, followed by 38 ciphers. The
new experiments will not change Ills
original figures much, the scientists
say, lint tiie difference will neverthe
less he important from a scientific
standpoint.
Says Sun Will Last
15 Trillion Years Yet
Washington. — Tiie world needn’t
worry for 15,000,000,000,000 years
nbout the sun failing to give forth its
beat, in tiie opinion of Dr. Charles G.
Abbot, noted astrophysicist and secre
tary of tiie Smithsonian institution.
The sun Is reducing In mass, but
scientists estimate that it will tnlce
that long for It to be destroyed. Tiie
present belief, lie explains, is Hint tlia;
sun nnd stars furnish their tremen- j
dous amount of energy through actual
annihilation of Hie atoms of which
they are composed.
Recent research, lie said, lias dis>
closed tiie sun sends out an amount
of energy which would equal, if trans
lated into mechanical work, one horse
power a square yard over the surface
of u sphere having a radius of 03,000,-
000 miles, its distance from tiie earth.
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| Explorer Discovers ;i;
% Strange Wild Race *
% New York.—A visit to a mys- *
* terlous race of warriors, possibly
* the descendants of South Sea
T islanders who came to South
*!• America many centuries ago,
% was described by A. Hyatt Ver-
rill of the Museum of tiie Amer-
£ lean Indian, Heye foundation, on
<* his return from Ids sixtieth trip
* to South America,
f Verrill said lie found t/ie tribe,
numbering about 350 men and
♦F women, in almost impenetrable
£ wilderness between Brazil and
Bolivia. None of tiie tribe wears ;
clothing. Verrill said, and tlio
men have developed long beards
of Hie type commonly seen in
Hie Solomon islands. The tribe
members are nature worshipers,
lie said.
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“Modern Atlas” Again
Testing World’s Heft
Washington.—Another attempt to
determine tiie exact weight of tlio
world is under way at the bureau ol
standards.
Dr. Paul U. Lleyl, a bureau physi
cist, who made a series of ohrerva-
tions on the subject a year ago, L
now undertaking a check of hi? for
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Why Birds Nest in North
It is not known for certain why
birds go nortli to nest, hut it is sup
posed by some scientists that birds
originated I11 Hie Arctic regions when
tiiese regions were tropical in climate
and that the going north each year Is
merely a hangover Instinct.
Why Hair Is White
Hair goes white, according to scien
tists, because the white corpuscles in
the blood eat up the pigments which
color the. hair. This often 1ms a good
effect, ns the system is relieved of the
work of making the pigments.
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